Breastfeeding consultants resign to protest formula training

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/06/25/bc-breastfeeding-consultants-resig
n-burnaby-.html

 

 

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

 

Two lactation consultants have resigned from Burnaby General Hospital
because they're concerned that hospital employees are being influenced by an
infant formula company.

Renee Hefti-Graham and Linda Good quit after hospital staff received e-mails
sent by managers that invited them to attend an educational seminar on
infant feeding organized by Nestle.

Hefti-Graham led a protest earlier this month against the seminar.

The company ended up cancelling it but Hefti-Graham told CBC News she quit
Tuesday because of what she described as corporate influence.

Good had already quit the day before.

 

(see link for full item)

 

Janice Reynolds

Saskatchewan Canada


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